Point Blank (1967)I know, I know — I wrote about a crime film last week. And there’s always the danger of turning this column into a constantly rotating memorial, where whichever notable personage in …

Pickup on South Street (1953)I spent some of the holiday week catching up with books I had missed, in part because the barrage of end-of-year-screenings had left me a little movie-d out — or, rather, …